Leave the old Nokia at the back of the drawer where it belongs. Companies catering to consumers who want to disconnect from their smartphones are making ‘dumbphones,’ which are attractive, simplistic and sometimes even pricey.
Satya Nadella’s first job as the third CEO in Microsoft’s 40-year history was to get a huge company to unite behind a single goal: to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In his latest book, “Hit Refresh,” Nadella says he enlisted psychologist Michael Gervais, who devised a simple exercise:
Write down your guiding principle in 25 words or less—and read it aloud to your peers.
It’s unnerving to talk into a webcam. Doubly so when you’re doing it for a job interview.
Talking to an actual person during an interview may soon seem like an artifact of the past with the rise of “on-demand” interviews used by companies to rapidly screen candidates and quickly determine the best fit for a job.
It is most definitely brain surgery.
The skull is opened, and electrical leads are implanted directly into the tissue of the brain. These wires are connected to a small device that sends a small dose of electricity into the brain.
The treatment, called deep brain stimulation, means patients suffering from neurological disorders like Parkinson’s Disease can have the chance to live a normal life without constantly fighting their own bodies.
When it comes to dealing with the threat posed by Amazon, small businesses don’t have to be the next David hoping to outperform Goliath — if you can’t beat the giant, try joining it.
Why? Here’s one recently revealed reason: Small-business owners who say that Amazon helps drive customers to their business have more confidence than those who say their business competes with Amazon for customers, according to a new CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey. It’s not by a wide margin — 59 percent vs. 56 percent, respectively. And it’s also still a relatively small subset of business owners — almost equal proportions of entrepreneurs say their business competes with Amazon for customers (8 percent) or Amazon helps drive customers to their business (7 percent).
With jobs it’s oftentimes not the work that’s difficult, but the people.
Take STEVE, for instance. Throughout his career his brothers have been knocked over by drunkards, bullied by schoolkids and even sprayed with graffiti.
But STEVE is not a person. He is an autonomous security robot resembling a cross between a rocket ship and R2D2 and is officially called the K5 Security Technology Enhancement Vehicle — STEVE, for short.
If Netflix and Hulu are boring you with crass, lowbrow content, if you gravitate to arthouse and indie movies, if you’re less into Song of Ice and Fire and more into India Song, it might be worth checking out your local library. But no need to get up from the couch and potentially spill your can of Pabst over your perfectly manicured beard — you can now stream these movies directly to your device.
Public libraries might be fighting with Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu for your eyeballs in the online content wars.
The Tesla Model 3 means many things to many people: an affordable electric car; an overpriced and overhyped tech product; a somewhat ergonomically awkward people mover; the beginning of the self-driving future; a key link in a sustainable-energy model that extends far beyond cars.
There’s another thing that Elon Musk’s electric-car company represents to experts who study innovative businesses and breakthrough technology: an approach to manufacturing, called an S-curve.
Business and politics rarely mix. Small-business owner Jenna Sheingold learned this the hard way early in the Trump era.
A dinner party she was invited to shortly after the 2016 election quickly soured when the discussion turned to politics. Conversation became heated, almost confrontational, and her host refused to change the topic, despite Sheingold’s insistence.
Mike Juang 